Everything I Ever Wanted {A Billy Hargrove + Stranger Things Fanfic}

23. Code Red

"It knows exactly where we are! It saw us, it was taunting us." I rushed to the windows from my manic state, looking for any visible sign and still reeling from the visual of Billy fresh within my mind. He was fighting the Flayer with all his might, trying everything he could to escape and help because I know he doesn't want to do these horrible things that the Flayer is making him do.

"Billy was in so much pain......" I could barely focus on the task at hand, too preoccupied with the thoughts of Billy out there, controlled by this bastard and helpless to stop him. Until the sudden reverberating sounds I knew all too well filled the darkened forest around the cabin with an ominous groan, warning us that he was here. And he wasn't backing down.

"Come on Lan! Get away from the window!" Jonathan's sudden hands on my arms startled me back to the here and now, doing everything I could to be strong and fight, when all I wanted to do was cry and scream, scream in frustration. I barely made it away from the window before it was completely shattered to the ground and the arms of the monster flung into the cabin with all its might, going straight for El and I. One her way, one mine. It broke right through the roof to have instant access to us all, along with reaching in through the walls. The growls of the monster sent screams from my lips the minute it attached to my leg and hauled me up into the air right out of Jonathan's arms, throwing me around the cabin into the walls and shelves lining the once neat walls. I was barely coherent once it had enough fun with damaging my body for its own pleasure, lifting me further into the air towards its now exposed rows of sharp teeth with the most intense pain coursing through my leg that I've ever felt before in my life. Tears were falling from my eyes and to the ground, pleading for someone to get me down. It wanted to kill me.

"Laaaaaan!!!" Jonathan roared my name through the air, trying desperately to grab my hands along with Nancy, when Eleven screamed out into the night with all her might, forcing the monsters grip off of my leg and dropping me to the ground with a thud, crying out in pain the moment my hurt leg connected with the wooden floor below me. More tentacles from the monster bust throughout the house to reach El and I further, each being stopped by the force of her power, completely ripping them apart and landing them to the ground. Her nose was bleeding like crazy and she was extremely exhausted, but she kept going, ripping each new tentacle that came within reach of us right off it's body.

"Shoot it!!! Shoot it!!!" Along with El's strength and Nancy's amazing aim, they started the process of getting it away from us. My leg was throbbing like crazy the moment I managed to get up off the ground and scream with all my might at the horrible being looking down upon us from the open hole in the roof, wanting nothing more than to end this thing. My screams seemed to echo out all around the cabin with the most deafening sound to accompany it, sending the monster rearing back from the mere sound of it, El's strength and Nancy's shots doing its magic as well. It suddenly was ripped in half at the top, its deafening growls filling the night air once we all managed to make our escape out the door from it being distracted. Jonathan and Nancy got me into the car with Eleven and Max sitting right with me while I practically cried from every possible thought going through my mind.

"Let's go!!! Now!!!" We sped off down the drive as fast as we could with everyone panicking from what just happened within the cabin, knowing this was far from over. I was overwhelmed with pain.

"We have to get to a supply store or something. We need to clean up Lana's leg. And quick." Max's worried eyes greeted mine as I laid my head in her lap to calm down the pain coursing through me, trying not to even think about it. It was slowly fading from my mind, but Billy was far from my thoughts. I could feel him.....
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We managed to make it to the thankfully closed Bradley's Big Buy without any problems or unexpected followers, barley making it into the store with the shooting pain in my leg taking over my senses. Jonathan and Nancy sat me down on the ground and exposed my leg to see the damage, and it was oozing blood. It looked terrible.